Jessica Chastain in the Big Game: 3 movies with the actress that you should watch on Prime Video

Great game

Released in 2017, Le Grand Jeu came to Prime Video to delight Jessica Chastain fans. In this biographical film by Aaron Sorkin, the actor attributes his qualities to Molly Bloom, an entrepreneur who tells her story in an autobiography published in 2014.

A former Olympic ski hopeful, he packed his bags in 2004 in Los Angeles. After being unceremoniously fired from the position of Senior Assistant who organizes underground poker parties, he started his own business for $ 250,000.

If success comes with the arrival of great personalities on a date, he quickly gives way to a threat, the Russian mafia, who wants to take control of his activities and the hunting FBI. Nominated for this role at the 2018 Golden Globes, Jessica Chastain is surrounded by Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Chris O’Dowd, Michael Serra, Jeremy Strong … just that!

Illegal men

With his roles and screenplay by Nick Cave, adapted from Matt Bondurant’s 2010 book, A Few Drops of Alcohol, Legitimate Men is sure to catch the eye. 1931 – With a total ban in the United States, Franklin County, Virginia is known for producing smuggled alcohol.

At the head of the movement we meet the Bondurante brothers. The head of the family and the eldest Forrest (Tom Hardy) does everything he can to protect the family. Howard (Jason Clark), Jr. is just as much a fighter as he is loyal, but his overly pronounced taste for alcohol makes him lose his footing. Finally, Jackie (Shia LaBeouf), the youngest and most impulsive, is a free spirit. Very ambitious, he has decided to turn a small family business into a large-scale traffic.

A trio that Maggie (Jessica Chastain) joins after fleeing Chicago. Captured by Forrest under his wing, he crystallizes hatred between siblings and rival gangsters. Then the real war begins so that everyone can maintain their place in the very first golden skies. The film, presented at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, features music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, photography by French Benoit Delhomme, but also Jessica Chastain’s talent, tenderness and brilliance.

INTERSTELLAR

Two years after the legal men, Jessica Chastain meets the stars in Christopher Nolan’s interstellar. From the very beginning, the carved feature film shines on the actor who plays Murphy Cooper in adulthood, the protagonist’s daughter, played by Matthew McConaughey. In the near future, and before humanity is plunged into an unprecedented food crisis, Joseph Cooper goes into space hoping to find a new habitable planet there.

When he leaves his daughter at the age of 10, a former NASA pilot who became a farmer crosses temporary spaces. After spending a few minutes on the planet, Cooper learns that 23 years have passed on Earth. Thus, he discovers the videos taken by his children during these two decades, in a sequence that has become a cult.

Jessica Chastain’s character, who is now her father’s age, cries and asks him to return, in the face of the latter, who is also devastated, light years away from her. Scene rediscovered without moderation on Interstellar, Prime Video.